LOS ANGELES — The Screen Actors Guild rejected the latest contract offer from Hollywood studios Thursday but said it was willing to negotiate and presented a counterproposal. Producers, however, didn’t appear as willing to consider any revisions to what they called their final offer.
The two sides met privately for more than five hours Thursday. The studios made their final offer last week, saying it provided $250 million in additional compensation over three years. The studios said they will not make any pay increases retroactive to July 1 if the deal is not ratified by Aug. 15.
Doug Allen, SAG’s executive director and chief negotiator, called the $250 million estimate “highly inflated,” claiming that proposed raises to actors’ minimum wages would not benefit the higher-paid actors.
